@Arkady
You state that I use oblique references? Well maybe that is because they are actually factual as opposed to literally made up by a privately funded think tank and put onto Twitter to suit your narrative?
I was not even going to bother rep…
@Ali
No CORGI (aka The Dog) were even worse and were stripped of running the register for being so bad.
They immediately stole the entire register of customers and then set about marketing to them directly (while masquerading as an authority) and…
Oh dear, I can address some of your points as I am waiting for my emails to download but the main issue is that you clearly do not fully understand how capitalism and business work in the real world.
Comments like “Driverless cars would be cheaper …
Hi Scruff, I am simply referring to the fact that when most people who need their cars for work are forced off the road by financial restrictions and the licensing system (or whatever is required for shared cars) is ran as a cartel / handed to a cor…
Wow, fascinating insight from RethinkX whose own ‘CEO’ has the bio “Neil has spent 28 years working across the globe specifically in Greater China and in Russian”(?!) on their website, he does have a Post-Graduate Diploma though so he must be really…
It is indeed on the old Gaslight / Silver Bullet / Zelman Spot, it does look more like a Silver Bullet type set up with live bands and DJ’s
If you Google it they have a place in Birmingham that looks successful, it is right up my street to be hones…
Coqfighter were running the kitchen for BSR but no more, I didn’t realise that they had a restaurant.
The food looks good when I've seen it come out now though in BSR (Yeah Burger!), I think I worked out it would be about 15 quid for a burger and c…
I was sat one table away from Sir Starmer in a local pub the other day, he was sat there with a pint, having a normal (if fairly serious looking) conversation with a couple of other guys, I can’t imagine Fat Al doing that somehow.
Actually it was q…
I noticed that they had it in Waitrose in Victoria earlier funnily enough.
Should probably add that the little florist by Granary on SGR is a lovely little shop, I don't often go past when it is open but when I do they stock some very nice produce.
I heard the term "ablist" the other day and thought there must be gangs of disabled people going around verbally abusing able bodied people.
I thought that sounded jolly marvellous and even thought of some witty one liners that they could use again…
To the organisers credit every stall was independent and selling totally unique items which seems to be a rarity nowadays.
It did however strike me as rather ironic that there was no lift to the first floor, imagine the debacle if a couple of burl…
You need 50% of the leaseholders to buy the freehold (assuming that nothing has very recently changed), if you have a long lease they are normally peanuts compared with the fees freeholders are increasingly charging / ripping.
Good, it will be next week as i literally haven't got the energy right now.
As a tasty titbit i definitely didn't receive any intergenerational benefit (pretty hard to inherit anything when growing up in a one parent household in a sink estate coun…
Whoa! Too many generalisations and grauniad soundbites to tackle right now, I will have to return later to dispel some of them.
Suffice to say you will get your wish in the next 20 years and then the corporates will own them all instead, let's see …
Scotland? I am a landlord in London (yeah yeah, boo hiss) and have had to enrol in a licensing scheme already.
I agree with the principal and being a 'good' landlord my property passed the minimum requirements with ease (as would any property with …
Just another scheme to tax the law abiding and ignore the people renting out sheds / sub-letting for cash, loads of other councils are doing it already though so it will go through.
@LukeG As far as I understand Islington do not force residents out to areas in Kent and Essex like most other councils do (they might, but I have never heard of it).
In contrast Haringey have purchased large plots of land in Essex to build properti…
@Ali The ban on high value slot machines is not the reason that bookies are closing; they were simply a more efficient way of taking someone’s money and a lobbying point for big firms.
If someone has got £200 burning a hole in his / her pocket then…
I always take "Gentrification" to mean things like The Larrick turning (back) into The Stapleton Tavern and losing the pool tables, the Spoons turning into a more expensive offering, betting shops closing etc.
The end result of Gentrification alway…
https://twitter.com/BarneyDavisES/status/1407743195295924225
Strangely it is on the Evening Standard site when viewed on a phone but not on my desktop.